Dispatch #28 – To Whom Does Poetry Belong

Part of the problem is with the contemporary use of the word poet. In today’s technocratic statist theo-economic order (Hosannas to the Invisible Hand, may its Holy Fluctuations bless you) it has come to describe some kind of identifiable job within the theo-economic order – a genuine, honest to god, productive career path in a conceptual economy that circulates around the notion of the acquisition, possession, and exploitation of property . . .